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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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What Is the Best Constrol of Curiousness?

Augustine has very harsh things to say about people who investigate natural phenom or allow their curiosity unbridled. The worst constrole of curiosity is that it's a meddlesome, busybody prying into the secrets of neighbors and god. But its star begins to rise in the sixteenth and seventeenth century when philosop anthropology takes curiosity to be the most salient feature of human beings.

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